SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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11:30am-12:30pm – back patio brunch
12:30pm-1:30pmish – live entertainment, plus a selection of vintage short subjects
1:30pm-3:00pmish – Chaplin’s The Kid & A Dog’s Life

In this perfect show for Father and Co., T.J. Miller presents one of Charlie Chaplin’s milestone early features! In The Kid, the Tramp adopts an abandoned toddler (Jackie Coogan) whom he discovers in an alley, and raises him to become his sidekick in a variety of schemes and cons. Chaplin’s first feature-length directorial effort, The Kid is a moving and hilarious portrait of paternal love, or as the film’s first intertitle says, “A picture with a smile, and perhaps a tear…” As well, it’s the landmark work of genius in which Charlie the jester metamorphasized into Charlie the full-blooded actor, whose iconic dignity in the face of comic adversity made him one of our greatest cinematic treasures. After the morning brunch merriment and live entertainment, but before the feature, we also have A Dog’s Life, the 1918 short that the presages The Kid, and features the Tramp’s sweet misadventures in the company of a young pup, who happily watches as Chaplin hides from the cops, taunts hard-faced gangster types, and tries to get the girl!The Kid Dir. Charles Chaplin, 1921, 35mm, 68 min.A Dog’s Life Dir. Charles Chaplin, 1918, 35mm, 33 min.